Print Screen: used to take a snapshot of your current environment and saves it into your clipboard (under Windows). Give it a try press "print screen" goto start->all programs->accessories->paint. Then press ctrl+v (or edit->paste). It is also used in many video games to take screenshots of the current screen.

Pause/Break: This key is handy when mapped to a IDEs debugger. Basically when you are programming you can pause or break to pause or break during the debug process.

Scroll Lock: This key is used often in association with KVM switches.

So as you can see the keys you so openly object to are of valuable use to people other than yourself and who might even affect your life.

If you wish to eliminate the current functionality of these keys and others try (http://www.randyrants.com/2006/07/sharpkeys_211.html).

Your idea sucks, and even if it didn't your passion for it speaks ill of you.

When was the last time you actually *read* a forum post typed in all caps? God knows how many man-hours that key has saved the world. It's the biggest red flag there is. (With the possible exception of misused commas. Ahem.)

In 20 years of using PCs I don't think I've ever encountered a keyboard with the left ctrl key anywhere but in the bottom left hand corner. Are you looking back to some ancient Commodore keyboard or what?

Millions of people play games on their computers, and are used to the left Ctrl key being where it has been all this time. We use the Caps Lock key as well. Since games have been the driving force behind technological progress in home computing since at least 1993, it's odd you haven't mentioned this at least as a stumbling block.

That modern use of the Ctrl key isn't second nature to you and you haven't given the gaming angle thought suggests you're not the guy to do this. Hell, in your first post you accidentally let us know you look at the keyboard while you type. How else did you type well into a line without catching the error immediately? You weren't typing from handwritten notes, or you'd have finished the sentence.

For me the issue is not so much the caps lock but the fact that the shift key acts to invert the caps status.

sO i wIND uP wITH clc lIKE tHIS ... after I accidentally bumped the caps lock on. You just can't know how many lines I've retyped in my lifetime because of this BS.

If you refer back to the old mechanical typewriter, you find its behavior more reasonable. If the caps lock is engaged and you shift-type a letter, you get a cap letter and then caps lock is disengaged when you release the shift key. Note that my above example would have been rendered correctly if computer keyboards acted this way. That first S would have been capped and and the rest in lower case except for the shifted letters.

Is that not sensible? Is that not simple to implement? They give me gigaHz and gigaBytes (and God love it - these new machines) but leave me heckled with a lame keyboard.

You're either a selfish moron or a freak with a strange sense of humor. This is not an idea that helps most users. Clearly you're unhappy with your keyboard layout. Tough shit. Why not go shopping for one of the hundreds of keyboard layouts available inernationally...

Haha! Great... I have pried the CL button off all my keyboards. I thought I was the only one who did that. I am a bit of a fumbler when typing, and that button infuriates me. Better typists probably don't have a problem.

What I also tried once was to freeze the key with superglue, but found I actually preferred the open hole, it makes a neat little reference point for the tab and shift buttons.

You guys don't understand!!! The main reason the Caps Lock must go is because I have seen too many young people using this key instead of the shift key! This is an abomination! Caps Lock must go!As for print screen, pause and scroll lock... the first must stay, the others can go.

dude, YOUR A PHYSCO STOP REBELING AGAINST A BUTTON! THE KEYBOARD KNOWS NO SHAME! I NEVER USE THAT WINDOWS KEY, OR THE HOME KEY OR THEPAGE /\ OR DOWN KEYS! IN FACT THAT WHOLE LOT IS OVER THERE IS MESSED UP! PUT CTRL KEYS THERE!

I admit that I use caps when I write capital letters. Not shift like many other people, but then again, I have a scandinavian keyboard which makes it easier (for me atleast) to reach when I type rather than the shift key. I wouldn't mind seeing shift and caps lock change places or somesuch. I would only have to press once to get a capital letter rather than before and after.

But seriously.

In my opinion, the Pause/Break key must be the most useless key in the entire history of keyboards.

The most heinious offenders are those assinine Windows keys. Who the freak uses them? I say move those keys and Caps Lock to the island and see if people miss them. I want my long space bar back!

As for what other programs have mapped to, those mappings can change. The programs use what is available to them; they don't drive the creation of the keyboard itself.

And games have been the driving force behind computing -- oh, right! I know it's silly to argue with GAMERZ, because they are subhuman ADHD dribbling zombies whose whole existence revolves around stats, caffeine, and pwning other players, but please. Maybe when you move out of your mom's basement, you'll figure out that the rest of the world doesn't revolve around WoW.

Lastly, I don't think anyone is arguing that this works for international keyboards. Every language group will need to devise its own solution.

7 million people play World of Warcraft. 2 million play Guild Wars. Maybe half a million play Half-Life. Where do you think the $150, nay $75 graphics chips that will power the next generation operating systems came from? Why do you think they no longer cost $500?

Gaming isn't a hobby anymore. With the exception of porn it's now the most popular and lucrative form of entertainment in history. Resorting to tired stereotypes only confesses a lack of interest in the subject. Do you make a habit of forming strong opinions and hurling insults about things you don't really care about?

This is the same stuff people spat at early film enthusiasts. Even the novel form was subject to this sort of talk. Sounds like thinly veiled resentment to me.

The image you paint of a socially deficient, mentally incapable shut-in with an attitude problem more closely matches the contempt you display for your culture. Its association with involvement and enthusiasm has been out of circulation for some time now.

I like Print Screen, but even my reduced laptop keyboard has all this bullcrap like Caps Lock, Num / Scroll Lock.. Pause.. And my favorite, the Context Menu button. The button that right clicks for you.

In case, you know, I'd rather take my hand off the mouse / trackpad, move it all the fucking way up to the top of the keyboard, and press the right-click menu key.

And the backwards apostrophe / tilde, which I only use for keyboard shortcuts, since they are not really part of the English alphabet.

Why do they put these idiotic keys on keyboards? WHY??? CAPS LOCK DOES ME NO GOOD, EVER!

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